I had a chance to listen to the new Jay-Z album which is the Blueprint 3, and it is one of my most favorite music albums of the year. This is Jay-Z’s 10th album and even at almost 40 years old, he is still one of the best rap …

Jordin SParks is one of the more recent popular singers who I find myself actually liking, which is strange since I don’t usually like much of modern popular music. I think there might be several reasons for this too as I think that she is one of the few …

I am a twenty one year old who loves listening to nearly every type of modern music including different types of metal. When I was younger though, the choice of music I liked listening to was more narrow, and oldies was not usually a part of it. Nevertheless, for …

This EP was originally composed for a dance piece by Merce Cunningham. The band famous for their innovative use of instruments has developed this piece mainly for Piano, Toy Piano, Vocal Samples and, interestingly, miked up ballet shoes. The three tracks develop when played form start to finish, making …

College is a song by Animal Collective which appears on their album Sung Tongs. The track opens up with a brief spoken section before the vocals to the track come in along with an odd background noise which I’m not sure how to characterize. The vocal harmony goes on …

There You Are: Jesus Song No. 7 is a song by The Flaming Lips which appears as the eighth song on their fourth release, In A Priest Driven Ambulance. In strict contrast to the preceding track on this record, There You Are: Jesus Song No. 7 returns the album …

I’ll Be There is a song by Megadeth which appears on their record Risk. I’ll Be There starts off with a very fast guitar riff which really is just noise at an extremely frantic tempo before leading into a synthesizer part which actually sort of has an Eastern sound …

Lenny Bruce is a song by Bob Dylan which appears on his record Shot Of Love. Thankfully Shot Of Love is basically the last of Dylan’s records where religious themes are prominent throughout many of the lyrics of the song and on an even better note, Lenny Bruce doesn’t …

Underwater Love is a song by the band Faith No More. This appears as the 7th track off of their hit album “The Real Thing. At the time Faith No More faced plenty of controversy with Red Hot Chili Peppers. For one they sound very similar, featuring prominent bass …

If there’s a popstar that I believe could make a hit after hit without tiring the general audience, I will probably say it is Katy Perry. Her presence in the music industry is pretty much felt in the span of almost a decade, (gosh it makes me feel old) …

Overview —“ Hit The Lights, the opening track of Metallica’s first record: Kill —˜Em All, is the song which made it on Metal Massacre and really what got Metallica noticed and truly recognized. If this song didn’t end up on Metal Massacre then I’m really not sure if Metallica …

When Did You Leave Heaven is a cover performed by Bob Dylan which appears on his record Down In The Groove. The song opens up with a drum rhythm along with some synthesizers which is a sound that Dylan rarely ever experiments with. Thus far the overall sound of …

Who can forget Barry White? I’m sure his songs have touched everyone at some time or other. I know he has touched me. I grew up with Barry White. Barry’s music is so soulful, and truly says something.
Barry’s music just put’s you in the mood for love. His husky, …

Miley Cyrus is just one of many Disney stars that everybody predicted would fade into the background. However, she has somehow managed to captivate a huge market of pre-teenagers who love her catchy pop songs as well as her character on the Hannah Montana show. I have to admit …

If you are at all on the underground scene in Atlanta, GA, you probably have run into this young artist. Once a member of the group, the Fresh Air Foundation, this artist has figured out a way to bring balance back to hip-hop while exhibiting his own …

Overview —“ Hitchin’ A Ride, the first music video released by Green Day for their album Nimrod is a music video that focuses primarily on a performance video with the band playing the song in a theater. To be honest, I thought Nimrod had some pretty good songs on …

I first heard Taylor Swift’s “You Belong with Me” in my boyfriend’s iPod, and he was singing along with it like some lunatic so I just had to listen to it for myself to know what the hype was all about. Then wow, I was instantly hooked.
Personally I …

Diorama is Silverchair’s fourth album and when released also the most calm album.
After Neon Ballroom’s succes, the power-trio released Diorama.Altough the album still quite slow, some songs like “One Way Mule” and “The Lever” still carry the band’s hard side.When it was released, after listening to it, at first …

Old Time’s Sake is a song by Eminem which appears on his record Relapse. I should also mention that this song features Dr. Dre in various parts of the track. The song opens up with a brief intro with Eminem before Dr. Dre goes into the first verse. Though …

Free Love is a song by Cage The Elephant which appears on their self-titled debut record. The track opens up in a very distorted fashion which introduces a listener to the very young energy that this band has, some of the most I’ve heard from one of the more …

Promises by Randy Travis is great song. It’s one of a couple of different songs that I like to listen to when I need to relax or mellow out after a bad day. It is somewhat of a sad song. It reminds me that when everything seems like it …

I did not really know much about Meg & Dia until I heard one of their songs while on MySpace. That is where they became popular initially. They won the MySpace band award for Warped a few years back. Meg & Dia are two sisters who released two albums …

“Black Sails In The Sunset” is one of the premier punk albums of the 90s. Put simply, it is a solid record with no filler, and provides an hour of some of the best and fullest punk of the 1990s. It is certainly AFI’s best record in my opinion. …

I think this is a good video for anybody to watch. It has a great calming feel to it and I think it could be watched many times. I kind of do that myself. I love repeating the video over and over and over again, but I never get …

Sugar is a track which appears on System Of A Down’s self-titled debut record. I believe that among the songs on that first record, Sugar is probably the most well known, along with War, because of the music videos made for them. Sugar certainly demonstrates System Of A Down …

Whenever I am singing in our videoke, I like to sing this song as it is easy to sing because it is slow and easy to sing. I am not aware of the meaning of the song even how old it is, for me it is an easy song …

Aaliyah ft. R. Kelly
“At Your Best (You Are Love)”
Age Ain’t Nothing But A Number
Blackground/Jive Records
Aaliyah’s follow up to “Back and Forth”, “At Your Best (You Are Love)”, takes a more laid back, and chilled-out yet funky and romantic approach in both the song and the video itself. She’s got …

Junior Dad is a song by Lou Reed and Metallica and is the final track on their collaboration album Lulu. Opening up with a very melodic intro, Reed places some vocals over this section which creates a fairly calm and peaceful sound. As I have said several times before, …

I am kind of getting tired of hearing songs and seeing videos by rappers who are talking about how tough their lives are in the hood. The reason is that so many rappers and hip-hop artists believe that being from the streets requires a certain type of …

Here comes the judge! That’s right, this is the album that proved to the world Soundgarden was a legitimate threat to any rock Gods previous. Badmotorfinger, Soundgarden’s forth album, is where it really starts to get good.
Oh, man. I can hear the start of Rusty Cage playing in …

There is something about this song, “too little too late”. I personally have enjoyed this particular music track so much, and there are a few remixes to it.
Personally, Jojo, the singer to the title song, “too little too late” has really captured my heart and I …

First of all….you need to realize that Metallica has LOST their flame a LOOOONG time ago. I would speculate that it was during their BLACK album that their flame went out. They are a piss poor representation of American Metal, and they do not deserve all the praise that …

Sun And Steel is a song by Iron Maiden which appears on their album Piece Of Mind. The track opens up with a heavy guitar rhythm accompanied by the drums as well as Harris’ galloping bass line. The track is based on a Japanese essay and deals with the …

Overview —“ Metallica: The Videos is a DVD collection made up of all of Metallica’s music videos released from 1989, starting with One, all the way until 2004, ending with Some Kind Of Monster. The nice thing about this DVD is that you get all 21 of Metallica’s officially …

Overview - Although Side IV of The Wall isn’t as good as side III, it still has some very good songs on it and wraps up the story behind this album very well in the end. In fact I’d have to say that this side has two of my …

R. Kelly
“The World’s Greatest”
“Ali”: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
The church choirs and the swelling ballad strings once again return in this latest “I Believe I Can Fly”-ish opus from none other than the signature emotional song candidate for tear-jerking ‘message’ movies (with the exception of 1996’s “Space Jam” which …

Blackout is a track by Muse which appears on Absolution. The first thing I want to say about Blackout is that the introduction to this song is the one of the best sections of music that I’ve ever heard Muse write, at least the best out of all the …

The last time anyone had heard of the Hieroglyphics crew together on one album was way back with their debut “3rd Eye Vision”. The album presented more or less Jazzy Hip Hop beats by the infamous JayBiz, and was chock full of intelligent and witty lyrics. “3rd Eye Vision” …

Lily Of The West is a traditional song which is performed and recorded by Bob Dylan for his album entitled Dylan. The track starts off with an acoustic guitar strumming a chord pattern along with a steady bass line and drum pattern providing the main rhythm of the track …

From the minds of R. Adams and L. Kusik, Everything But Love is a song performed by Patty Duke back in the sixties. It’s one of my favorite songs of hers, one I still enjoy today. In my opinion, this is a song that is still relevant …

Someone Is Waiting is a song by Neutral Milk Hotel which is the third track to appear on their debut release, On Avery Island. Picking up immediately where the previous track, You’ve Passed, left on, the vocal performance of Jeff Magnum abandons the Lou Reed-like sound which I seemed …

For the band Skid Row, their image may be best defined by their larger-than-life frontman Sebastian Bach and his powerful, soaring screams but one cannot dismiss the fact that the band’s over-all sound is the key ingredient in
making Skid Row one of the most noted rock outfit to ever …

Chores is a song by Animal Collective and is the third track on their album Strawberry Jam. Opening up with a vocal section immediately, Chores quickly transitions into a significantly faster section and is the quickest song to come on Strawberry Jam thus far. Perhaps some listeners felt that …

Homecoming, the second musical epic of this album along with Jesus Of Suburbia, is honestly just as good as Jesus Of Suburbia in my opinion. I praise both of these tracks heavily, not so much because the parts themselves are brilliant but because the whole song is very well …

Overview - The Roland Cube 30X is a modeling amplifier, meaning it has a channel where it replicates sounds of other amps, eight to be exact, and also a clean channel. The main reason that I decided to buy this amplifier was that I needed an amp which had …

I bought this CD for a father’s day present for my father a couple of years ago,and since then I have listened to it a few times even though I am not very fond of soul music.
The album has basically all the songs I have heard over the years …

Led Zeppelin took a chance with this album by including a folk influence that features interesting acoustic guitar and musicianship.This was about the time Led Zeppelin truly started to progress from their already popular brand of music.Over The Hills And Far Away features a distinctive feel and sound that …

If you haven’t heard of Nerina Pallot, I don’t know where you have been! She has had so much media hype and 5 star reviews in all the right places. And for once, the hype can be believed!
Nerina’s album, Fires, is an incredibly strong album and you can listen …

I have had a bit of an interesting relationship with the music of DEVIL DRIVER since they first came onto the scene. See, i like Dez’s previous band Coal Chamber a little bit, but i never really embraced them as i wasn’t real big on the whole Nu-Metal phase …

I didn’t realise until I saw a video of Gary Barlow and Robbie Williams discussing Take Thats hit shine, that it had actually been wrote about Robbie Williams. It had always been one of the bands livelier songs because bee penned by Mark Owen and he always took the …